Universality in Random-Walk Models with Birth and Death

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.75.3210MaRDI QIDQ4492334zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Stefan Boettcher, Carl M. Bender, Peter N. Meisinger

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9506014

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

Abstract: Models of random walks are considered in which walkers are born at one location and die at all other locations with uniform death rate. Steady-state distributions of random walkers exhibit dimensionally dependent critical behavior as a function of the birth rate. Exact analytical results for a hyperspherical lattice yield a second-order phase transition with a nontrivial critical exponent for all positive dimensions $Deq2,4$. Numerical studies of hypercubic and fractal lattices indicate that these exact results are universal. Implications for the adsorption transition of polymers at curved interfaces are discussed.

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